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<h2>How to download and install</h2>
<p>There are different ways to get and install
smartmontools. You can use any of the procedures below. 
The <b><a href="http://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smartmontools/tags/RELEASE_5_38/sm5/INSTALL?revision=2479&amp;view=markup">
INSTALL</a></b> file contains additional information.</p>

<ol>
<li><strong>Install precompiled package</strong><br />(<a href="#rpm">Instructions</a>)
  <ol>
  <li><strong>Debian package</strong><br />(<a href="#debian">Instructions</a>)</li>
  <li><strong>Redhat package</strong><br />(<a href="#redhat">Instructions</a>)</li>
  <li><strong>Other Linux distributions with RPM</strong><br />(<a href="#other-rpm">Instructions</a>)</li>
  <li><strong>Cygwin package</strong><br />(<a href="#CygwinInstall">Instructions</a>)<br />
(Windows with <a href="http://cygwin.com/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Cygwin</a> installed)</li>
  <li><strong>Windows package</strong><br />(<a href="#WindowsInstall">Instructions</a>)</li>
  </ol></li>
<li><strong>Install from our source tarball</strong><br />(<a href="#tarball">Instructions</a>)</li>
<li><strong>Install latest unreleased code from SVN repository</strong><br />(<a href="#SVNInstall">Instructions</a>)</li>
<li><strong>Don't install, run from Live-system</strong><br />(<a href="#live-cd">Instructions</a>)</li>
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<div><p>Smartmontools 5.38 (stable) was released 2008/03/10, see 
<a href="http://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smartmontools/tags/RELEASE_5_38/sm5/NEWS?view=markup">NEWS</a> 
and <a href="http://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smartmontools/tags/RELEASE_5_38/sm5/CHANGELOG?view=markup">CHANGELOG</a> 
for details.</p></div>

<hr />

<div><p>After installation or booting from a <a href="#live-cd">Live-CD</a>,
you can read smartmontools man pages and try out the commands:</p>

<p class="code">
man smartd.conf<br />
man smartctl<br />
man smartd<br />
<br />
# Only root can do this<br />
/usr/sbin/smartctl -s on -o on -S on /dev/hda<br /> 
/usr/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/hda</p>

<p>Note that the default location for the manual pages are
<tt>/usr/share/man/man5</tt> and <tt>/usr/share/man/man8</tt>.&#160; If
'<tt>man</tt>' doesn't find them, then you may need to add
<tt>/usr/share/man</tt> to your <tt>MANPATH</tt> environment
variable.</p>

<p>The <a href="#WindowsInstall">Windows package</a> provides 
preformatted man pages in <tt>*.html</tt> and <tt>*.txt</tt> format.</p>
<hr />

<h3><a name="rpm"></a>First Method - Install precompiled package</h3>
<p class="marked">Starting with smartmontools release 5.37, RPM files
are no longer available at the smartmontools project download page.
Refer to the package download location of your distribution.</p>

<ul style="list-style: none;">
  <li>
  <table border="1">
  <tr>
    <th>Distribution</th>
    <th>Package</th>
    <th>Version</th>
    <th>Repository</th>
    <th>Download-URL</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Debian</td>
    <td>smartmontools</td>
    <td>5.38-2+lenny1</td>
    <td>stable</td>
    <td><a href="http://packages.debian.org/lenny/smartmontools" title="http://packages.debian.org/lenny/smartmontools"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Download</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Debian</td>
    <td>smartmontools</td>
    <td>5.38-3</td>
    <td>testing</td>
    <td><a href="http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/smartmontools" title="http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/smartmontools"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Download</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Fink</td>        
    <td>gsmartcontrol</td>
    <td>0.8.4-1002</td>
    <td></td>
    <td><a href="http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/gsmartcontrol" title="http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/gsmartcontrol"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Download</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Fink</td>        
    <td>smartmontools</td>
    <td>5.38-1</td>
    <td></td>
    <td><a href="http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/smartmontools" title="http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/smartmontools"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Download</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Fink</td>        
    <td>smartmontools-daemon</td>
    <td>5.38-1</td>
    <td></td>
    <td><a href="http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/smartmontools-daemon" title="http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/smartmontools-daemon"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Download</a></td>
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  <tr>
    <td>FreeBSD</td>
    <td>gsmartcontrol</td>
    <td>0.8.4</td>
    <td>sysutils</td>
    <td><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/sysutils/gsmartcontrol" title="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/sysutils/gsmartcontrol"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Download</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>FreeBSD</td>
    <td>smartmontools</td>
    <td>5.38_6</td>
    <td>sysutils</td>
    <td><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/sysutils/smartmontools" title="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/sysutils/smartmontools"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Download</a></td>
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    <td>Gentoo</td>
    <td>smartmontools</td>
    <td>5.36-r1</td>
    <td></td>
    <td><a href="http://gentoo-portage.com/sys-apps/smartmontools" title="http://gentoo-portage.com/sys-apps/smartmontools"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Download</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Gentoo</td>
    <td>smartmontools</td>
    <td>5.37</td>
    <td></td>
    <td><a href="http://gentoo-portage.com/sys-apps/smartmontools" title="http://gentoo-portage.com/sys-apps/smartmontools"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Download</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Gentoo</td>
    <td>smartmontools</td>
    <td>5.37-r1</td>
    <td></td>
    <td><a href="http://gentoo-portage.com/sys-apps/smartmontools" title="http://gentoo-portage.com/sys-apps/smartmontools"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Download</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Gentoo</td>
    <td>smartmontools</td>
    <td>5.38</td>
    <td></td>
    <td><a href="http://gentoo-portage.com/sys-apps/smartmontools" title="http://gentoo-portage.com/sys-apps/smartmontools"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Download</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>MacPorts</td>
    <td>smartmontools</td>
    <td>5.38</td>
    <td></td>
    <td><a href="http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/sysutils/smartmontools/Portfile" title="http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/sysutils/smartmontools/Portfile"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Download</a></td>
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  <tr>
    <td>Mandriva</td>
    <td>smartmontools</td>
    <td>5.38-3</td>
    <td></td>
    <td><a href="http://sophie.zarb.org/viewrpm/1dac6f151f8b850d345d2c0e410047f9" title="http://sophie.zarb.org/viewrpm/1dac6f151f8b850d345d2c0e410047f9"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Download</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Mandriva</td>
    <td>smartmontools-debug</td>
    <td>5.38-3</td>
    <td></td>
    <td><a href="http://sophie.zarb.org/viewrpm/93c18bf083d821fdaa291de54710cfec" title="http://sophie.zarb.org/viewrpm/93c18bf083d821fdaa291de54710cfec"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Download</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>NetBSD</td>
    <td>smartmontools</td>
    <td>5.38</td>
    <td>sysutils</td>
    <td><a href="http://pkgsrc.se/sysutils/smartmontools" title="http://pkgsrc.se/sysutils/smartmontools"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Download</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>OpenBSD</td>
    <td>smartmontools</td>
    <td>5.38</td>
    <td></td>
    <td><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/4.4_packages/i386/smartmontools-5.38.tgz-long.html" title="http://www.openbsd.org/4.4_packages/i386/smartmontools-5.38.tgz-long.html"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Download</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>openSUSE</td>
    <td>smartmontools</td>
    <td>5.38.0.20090603</td>
    <td>sbrabec</td>
    <td><a href="http://packages.opensuse-community.org/packageinfo.jsp?checksum=87f73005dc3d3fcb1aaab4e4ac1faa9e327c44c3&amp;distro=openSUSE_111" title="http://packages.opensuse-community.org/packageinfo.jsp?checksum=87f73005dc3d3fcb1aaab4e4ac1faa9e327c44c3&amp;distro=openSUSE_111"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Download</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>openSUSE</td>
    <td>smartmontools</td>
    <td>5.38.0.20081027</td>
    <td>suse/oss</td>
    <td><a href="http://packages.opensuse-community.org/index.jsp?searchTerm=smartmontools" title="http://packages.opensuse-community.org/index.jsp?searchTerm=smartmontools"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Download</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Slackware</td>
    <td>smartmontools-5.38-i486-1.txz</td>
    <td>5.38</td>
    <td></td>
    <td><a href="http://packages.slackware.it/package.php?q=current/smartmontools-5.38-i486-1.txz" title="http://packages.slackware.it/package.php?q=current/smartmontools-5.38-i486-1.txz"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Download</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Ubuntu</td>
    <td>smartmontools</td>
    <td>5.38-1ubuntu2</td>
    <td></td>
    <td><a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/smartmontools" title="http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/smartmontools"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Download</a></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</li>
</ul>
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<ul class="High"><li><a name="debian"></a>Debian Linux - Install the Debian package</li></ul>
<ul class="Square">
<li>All versions of the smartmontools package in <i>.deb</i> format are
available at the  <a href="http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=smartmontools&amp;searchon=names&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all">
<img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Debian package search page</a>.</li>

<li>If you're running Debian <a
href="http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />stable</a> please download a
backport to stable <a
href="http://www.backports.org/debian/pool/main/s/smartmontools/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />here</a>.
These packages are provided by <a
href="http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />www.backports.org</a>.<br /><br /></li>

<li>You can then install the package using:
<p class="code">dpkg -i smartmontools_5.36-1_i386.deb</p>

If you prefer to fetch the packages using apt, please read the instructions at
<a href="http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />backports.org</a>.
</li></ul>

<hr />
<ul class="High"><li><a name="redhat"></a>Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS (both in versions 5 and newer) and Fedora Linux distributions</li></ul>
<ul class="Square">
<li>The smartmontools package is part of the official
repositories and can be installed using the <tt>yum</tt> command:
<p class="code"># you need to be root to do this<br />
yum install smartmontools</p></li>
</ul>

<hr />
<ul class="High"><li><a name="other-rpm"></a>Other distributions providing RPM packages</li></ul>

<ul class="Square">
<li>Download the latest binary RPM file (<tt>smartmontools*.rpm</tt>) for your
distribution. Don't get the SRPM file (<tt>*.src.rpm</tt>).<br /><br /></li>

<li>Install it using RPM. <em>You must be <tt>root</tt> to do this</em>:<br />
<p class="code">su root # -> enter root password
<br />rpm -ivh  smartmontools-5.33-6.i586.rpm</p>
For most users, this is all that is needed.<br /><br /></li>

<li>If you want to remove the package (<tt>rpm -e smartmontools</tt>)
and your system does not have <tt>chkconfig</tt> installed, you may need
to use:
<p class="code">rpm -e --noscripts smartmontools</p></li>
</ul>

<hr />
<ul class="High"><li><a name="CygwinInstall"></a>
Windows with <a href="http://cygwin.com/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Cygwin</a> installed - Install the Cygwin package</li></ul>
<ul class="Square">
<li>Starting with CVS snapshot 2005-11-15, smartmontools is part of
the <a href="http://cygwin.com/packages/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Cygwin distribution</a>.
A list of available smartmontools packages and their contents is
<a href="http://cygwin.com/packages/smartmontools/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />here</a>.<br /><br /></li>
<li>To update your installation, click on the "Install or update now!"
link on the <a href="http://cygwin.com/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Cygwin web page</a>.
This downloads <tt>setup.exe</tt> to your system.
Then, run setup and answer all of the questions.
Select smartmontools package in the "Utils" category.<br /><br /></li>

<li>The optional source package (<tt>smartmontools-*-src.tar.bz2</tt>)
can be used to build both the Cygwin and the Windows binary packages
on Cygwin.
Refer to the file <tt>/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/smartmontools-*.README</tt>
for details.</li>
</ul>

<hr />
<ul class="High"><li><a name="WindowsInstall"></a>
Windows - Install the Windows package</li></ul>
<ul class="Square">
<li>Download and run the latest smartmontools
<a href="http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />NSIS</a>-installer
(<tt>*.win32-setup.exe</tt>) from
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/files/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />here</a>.
<ul>
<li>The default install type "Full" creates start menu shortcuts
including an uninstaller, and adds the install directory to the PATH variable.
</li>
<li>Select install type "Extract files only" to disable these extra
components.
</li>
<li>Virus scanners occasionally produce false positive virus reports for
NSIS-installers, see the
<a href="http://nsis.sourceforge.net/NSIS_False_Positives"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />NSIS False Positives page</a>.
If this is the case for the smartmontools installer, please send a report to the
<a href="mailto:smartmontools-support&#64;lists.sourceforge.net"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />smartmontools-support
mailing list</a>.<br /><br /></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><span class="marked">Starting with smartmontools release 5.37, the Windows package
is no longer provided as a ZIP archive (<tt>*.win32.zip</tt>).</span><br />
If the self extracting installer cannot be used for some reason, the files may also
be unpacked by a recent version of <a href="http://www.7-zip.org/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />7-Zip</a>.<br /><br /></li>

<li>More recent (and probably unstable) Windows test releases build from CVS
snapshots are available <a href="http://smartmontools-win32.dyndns.org/smartmontools/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />here</a>.</li>
</ul>

<h3><a name="tarball"></a>Second Method (Linux/Solaris/FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD/Cygwin) - Install from the source tarball</h3>
<ul class="Square">
<li>Download the latest source tarball from <a
href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/files/">here</a>.
Note: you probably want the most recent stable release. Stable releases have
even-numbered extensions, and unstable experimental releases have
odd-numbered extensions.<br /><br /></li>

<li>Uncompress the tarball:
<p class="code">tar zxvf  smartmontools-5.38.tar.gz</p></li>
<li>The previous step created a directory called <tt>smartmontools-5.38</tt>
containing the code.&#160; Go to that directory, build, and install:
<p class="code">cd smartmontools-5.38<br />
./configure<br />
make<br />
make install</p></li>

<li>For releases &gt;=5.19, <tt>./configure</tt>
can take optional arguments. These optional arguments are fully explained in the
<a href="http://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smartmontools/trunk/smartmontools/INSTALL?view=markup">INSTALL</a>
file. The most important one is <tt>--prefix</tt> to change the default installation directories.<br />
<i>Please note that the default installation location changed in versions &gt;=5.31.</i>
If you don't pass any arguments to <tt>./configure</tt> all files will reside under
<tt>/usr/local</tt> to not interfere with files from your distribution. For more detailed
information please also refer to the
<a href="http://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smartmontools/trunk/smartmontools/INSTALL?view=markup">INSTALL</a>
document.<br /><br /></li>

<li>To compile from another directory (avoids overwriting virgin files from the smartmontools package)
replace <tt>./configure [options]</tt> by:
<p class="code">
mkdir objdir<br />
cd objdir<br />
../configure [options]<br />
</p></li>

<li>To install to another destination (useful for testing and to avoid overwriting an existing smartmontools installation)
replace <tt>make install</tt> by:
<p class="code">make DESTDIR=/home/myself/smartmontools-test install</p>
Use a full path: <tt>~/smartmontools-test</tt> won't work.<br /><br /></li>

<li>Unless the destination directory is your home directory (or a location that you have write permission)
<br />
<p class="code"># only root can do that:<br />
make install</p>
</li>
</ul>

<h3><a name="SVNInstall"></a>
Third Method - Install latest unreleased code from SVN repository</h3>
<p class="marked">We moved from CVS to a Subversion (SVN) repository.
The new address for our repository is  
<a href="http://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smartmontools"><tt>https://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/smartmontools</tt></a></p>

<ul class="Square">

<li>For those, who don't already have a Subversion client installed,
here is a <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/links.html#clients">list of SVN-Clients</a>
for different operating systems and in all colors and flavours. (Stand-alone clients, 
Desktop-integrated clients, IDE plug-in clients, ..)<br />
<br /></li>

<li>All you need to do to get the latest development code is
(but note that the development code may be unstable, and that the
documentation and code may be inconsistent):

<p class="code">svn co https://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/smartmontools/trunk/smartmontools smartmontools</p></li>

<li>This will create a subdirectory called <tt>smartmontools/</tt> containing the
code. Go to that directory, build, and install:
<p class="code">cd smartmontools<br />
./autogen.sh<br />
./configure<br />
make<br />
make install</p>

<p>- See notes under <a href="#tarball">Second method - install from source tarball</a> for different options to <tt>./configure</tt>
and other useful remarks.</p>
</li>

<li>To update your sources from trunk (development version):
<p class="code">cd smartmontools<br />
svn update</p></li>

<li>One of the really cool things about version control systems is that you can get
<i>any</i> version of the code you want, from the first release up the
the most current development version. And it's trivial, because
each release is <u>tagged</u> with a name. Look at the 
<a href="http://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smartmontools/tags/">tags in our SVN repository</a>, 
to see what the different names are.

<p>E.g. run the following command to fetch the RELEASE_5_38 release:</p>

<p class="code">svn co https://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/smartmontools/tags/RELEASE_5_38/sm5 smartmontools</p>

<p>Note that the directory with the smartmontools sourcefiles is named <span class="marked">sm5</span> in
releases &lt;= 5.38.</p>

<p>The rest of the build procedure is the same like described above, with one exception:</p>

<p>- Skip <tt>./autogen.sh</tt> and <tt>./configure</tt> for tagged releases
&lt;= 5.1-18 (RELEASE_5_X_Y, where X = 0 or 1 and Y = 0 to 18).</p>
</li>

</ul>

<h3><a name="live-cd"></a>
Fourth Method - Don't install, run from Live-system</h3>
<p>If you have a system that is showing signs of disk trouble (for
example, it's unbootable and the console is full of disk error
messages) it can be handy to have a version of smartmontools that can
be run off of a bootable CD or floppy to examine the disk's SMART data and run
self-tests.  This is also useful if you want to run Captive Self-Tests
(the <b><tt>-<font size="+2">C</font></tt></b> option of
<b><tt>smartctl</tt></b> ) on disks that can not easily be unmounted,
such as those hosting the Operating System files. Or you can use
this to run <tt>smartctl</tt> on computers that don't use Linux as the
day-to-day operating system.</p>

<p><a name="bootable"></a>Here is a list of such bootable CDs:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.finnix.org/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Finnix Live Bootable CD</a></li>
<li><a href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f7/en_US/sn-Live.html"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Fedora Core 7 Live Bootable CD</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.lnx-bbc.com/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />LNX-BBC Bootable CD</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.stresslinux.org/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Stresslinux Bootable CD</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />RIP (Recovery Is Possible) Bootable CD</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />SystemRescueCd</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gpstudio.com/stux/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />STUX Bootable CD</a></li>
<li><a href="http://partedmagic.com/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Parted Magic</a>
(also contains <a href="http://gsmartcontrol.berlios.de/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />GSmartControl</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Knoppix</a>
(<a href="http://packages.debian.org/testing/utils/smartmontools"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Debian/testing</a> based CD)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.gentoo.org/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Gentoo Installer LiveCD</a></li>
<li><a href="http://grml.org/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />grml Linux Live-CD</a>
(<a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/smartmontools"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Debian/unstable</a>
based CD, smartmontools is also included in <a href="http://grml.org/faq/#whatissmall"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />grml-small</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://ubuntu-rescue-remix.org/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Ubuntu Rescue Remix</a></li>
<li><a href="http://smartlinux.sourceforge.net/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />S.M.A.R.T. Linux</a>
(a bootable FLOPPY containing smartmontools!)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />INSERT (Inside Security Rescue Toolkit)</a>
(Knoppix based CD)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=13459"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Smartctl Plugin</a>
for <a href="http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />BartPE bootable live windows CD</a></li>
<li>A plugin for the <a href="http://www.ubcd4win.com/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />UBCD4Win</a>
can be created by the <a href="download.html#WindowsInstall">smartmontools windows installer</a></li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />UBCD</a>
5.0 beta contains PartedMagic (above), see also note about UBCD <a href="faq.html#UBCD">in the FAQ</a></li>
</ul>

<p>Please let us know if there are others, and we will add them to this list.</p>

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